The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was a canal in England which ran from Nantwich, where it joined the Chester Canal, to Autherley, where it...
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(Ellesmere Canal, Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, Montgomeryshire Canal) that came together to form the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company...
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adjoining canals were closed in 1944, the sections which had been the Ellesmere and Chester Canal and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, together...
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occurred when the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal opened its new route to Chester and Merseyside, meeting the canal at Autherley Junction. This took...
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Junction (grid reference SJ902011) is the name of the canal junction where the Birmingham Main Line Canal terminates and meets the Staffordshire and Worcestershire...
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Cornish. The Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Companion: Containing an Account of Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester. 1837....
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Aldersley Junction, which provided a route for manufactured goods to pass northwards. In 1835, the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal opened, connecting...
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the canal network until 1835, when the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal built the Newport Branch from Norbury Junction to a new junction with...
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Belvide Reservoir (category Canal reservoirs in England)
Staffordshire, England. It was built in 1833 to supply the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, and has been managed as a nature reserve since 1977. It has...
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Bordesley Junction (grid reference SP084864) is a canal junction where the Grand Union Canal splits near to Bordesley, Birmingham, England. It opened...
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with the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal by the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. ii). A year later the canal was taken...
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transhipment warehouses and wharves at Barbridge Junction, although the branch saw little traffic until the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal finally opened...
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Middlewich and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, which ran from Nantwich to Autherley. They took over the Eastern and Western branches of...
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them to absorb the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, the Montgomeryshire Canal, the Shrewsbury Canal and the Shropshire Canal. The name was changed...
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Liverpool, Manchester and London. As early as 1823, a company was formed with the objective of building a railway between London and Birmingham, and in...
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The new canal to Wappenshall Junction opened in 1835. The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846,...
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Four Counties Ring (category Canal rings in the United Kingdom)
Chester Canal terminated before the building of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal to Autherley Junction. This was a narrow canal, and so the...
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Stretton Aqueduct (category Shropshire Union Canal)
construction, 1832, it carries the Shropshire Union Canal (formerly the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal) 30 feet (9.1 m) over the A5 road at a skewed...
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Fradley Junction (grid reference SK140139) is a canal junction between Fradley and Alrewas near Lichfield, Staffordshire, England and the point at which...
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Horseshoe Falls (Wales) (category Llangollen Canal)
Ellesmere Port, the branch of the Chester Canal to Middlewich and the former Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal main line from Nantwich to Wolverhampton...
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1944. The main line still runs through the former junction. The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was authorised by an act of Parliament in 1825,...
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Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway was opened in 1846 to connect the industrial town of Ashton-under-Lyne to the developing railway network, and in particular...
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inland route between the major ports of Hull and Liverpool. The Mersey connection is made via the Bridgewater Canal, which it joins at Preston Brook in Cheshire...
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1826 26 May: The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is authorised; when opened in 1835 it will connect with the Birmingham Canal Navigations at Aldersley...
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It worked well enough to convince the Directors of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal to order six tugs which could tow as many as sixteen barges...
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related to Canal junctions in the United Kingdom. Junction (canal) Canals of Great Britain History of the British canal system List of canal aqueducts...
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and 72 feet (17 and 22 m) and are now used primarily for leisure. There are a number of canals which are far larger than this, including New Junction...
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Tunnel to Liverpool Docks from Edge Hill junction. The railway was primarily built to provide faster transport of raw materials, finished goods and passengers...
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However, Charles Pye writing of his visit to Birmingham in 1818 states that "having crossed the Warwick canal, the ruins of Bordesley house are in full view;...
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Droitwich Junction Canal, Worcester and Birmingham Canal, River Severn Four Counties Ring Trent and Mersey Canal, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Shropshire...
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